Re:Apple Is Said to Be Rethinking Strategy on Self-Driving Cars
by bryanlarsen on Saturday September 10, 2016 @04:40AM
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Sure, but there's absolutely no way to get such numbers in a statistically valid fashion without many years worth of statistics since fatal collisions / mile driven is such a low number. And since vendors push new software every few months, those numbers won't be available at all.
But you're right that people will choose their cars based on this. But the information they will have will just be rumour, innuendo, fear-mongering click bait journalism and other sources of FUD. It's going to be ugly.
Re:Apple Is Said to Be Rethinking Strategy on Self-Driving Cars
by tim333 on Saturday September 10, 2016 @09:23AM
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There are a bunch of ways you can test the systems apart from just looking at fatality numbers. Here's a TV show testing auto-braking systems for example. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzHM6PVTjXo
You could easily extend that to a test track with all sorts of stuff self driving cars find hard - oil spills, diversions, people / animals / plastic bags jumping out and so on.
1) $CAR_PROVIDER_X: 00.005% your daughter dies in a car crash
2) $CAR_PROVIDER_Y: 00.0045% your daughter dies in a car crash
3) $CAR_PROVIDER_Z: 00.009% your daughter dies in a car crash
IMO it's going to completely transcend previous safety ratings. People will evaluate the quality of self-driving tech in the beginning, maybe after awhile people start viewing it as "god like" but in the beginning they will be PICKY.